As I gear up to produce a fourth season of the IJ’s Lobby Lounge video concert series, I can tell you that one of the best parts about the experience for me has been following what our talented young performers go on to do with their music after they’ve been on our show.

Lobby Lounge alumni have done everything from singing on national television to performing as volunteers at senior centers and youth facilities. They’ve been featured at the Mountain Play and the Marin County Fair, sung at San Rafael Pacifics baseball games, rocked our local clubs, opened for name acts at concerts and music festivals, and gone on to pursue their music in college.

A number have recorded albums of their original songs, the latest being singer-songwriters Bella Bromberg, whose big personality and big voice made her a hit of last season’s Lobby Lounge series, and Sarah Herzog, who performed her intricate originals in the Lobby Lounge during the 2016-17 season.

Bella Bromberg, a 17-year-old senior at Marin Academy, has been performing around Marin and the Bay Area to promote her debut EP, “How I Wish.”

Working with guitarist-producer Gawain Mathews in his East Bay studio, Bromberg recorded a half dozen originals, including the title track, “How I Wish,” a heartfelt pop tune she debuted in her Lobby Lounge video concert, and “G.I. Lover,” a romantic story-song inspired by her grandmother, who immigrated to the United States from Korea after falling in love with an American soldier. Accompanying herself on piano, she sang it in her Lobby Lounge Live performance last spring at Marin Center’s Showcase Theater.

A 17-year-old senior at Marin Academy, Bromberg has been performing around Marin and the Bay Area to promote her debut EP, including sharing the stage with Matt Jaffe, another Lobby Lounge alumnus, at a Whistlestop benefit in September, and opening for comedian Maz Jobrani at the Nourse Theater in San Francisco.

Wearing a Wonder Woman costume, she auditioned for “American Idol” last year, made it through the first round and, with her natural charisma shining through, got some much-deserved press attention.

Bromberg says, “Currently I’m working on writing new music, volunteering for Bread & Roses and playing with my band at Marin Academy through our music program.”

Her ‘Experiment’

Herzog, a 17-year-old senior at Redwood High School, wowed us with her talent as a singer-songwriter when she performed three of her original songs, “Forgive Me,” “I’ll Take it from Here” and “Chocolates,” in her Lobby Lounge video concert accompanied by her uncle, Craig Herzog, on acoustic guitar. That trio of tunes are on her debut album, “Your Experiment,” showcasing a baker’s dozen of her jazzy pop originals.

Herzog has a fascinating back story. Adopted as a young child from Russia, she was plinking out tunes on the piano when she was 2 and has been writing music on the keyboard ever since.

She started singing publicly in high school, performing Amy Winehouse, Lana Del Rey and Halsey covers at farmers markets and open mics. She sent a tape to “America’s Got Talent,” making it to the final audition round.

Herzog was a newcomer to songwriting (although you’d never have known it) when she performed in the Lobby Lounge. Not long after, she went into Skyline Studios in Oakland and Disher Music & Sound in North Beach to record “Your Experiment” backed by her uncle Craig and the rhythm section of his Mill Valley band, Machiavelvets — drummer David Stickney and bassist Dan Patchin.

Herzog has performed at Lagunitas Brewing Co., the Occidental Center for the Arts, San Rafael Farmers Market, Sweetwater, Iron Springs Brewery and Mill Valley Concerts on the Plaza. You can find her upcoming shows listed on ReverbNation.

“Your Experiment” is available at Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes and CD Baby.

If you’re a young Marin musician or band and would like to audition for this season’s IJ Lobby Lounge series, please send a video or recording to me at p.liberatore@comcast.net.

Other locals’ albums

My in-box is overloaded with new albums by local musicians and bands. Forgive me for not getting to them sooner, but here are some of my favorites:

• “Roadside Attraction,” the Rivertown Trio — Singer Julie Bernard realizes a lifelong dream recording this collection of 13 country and Americana tunes with bandmates Gary Vogensen, one of our top guitarists and singers, and former New Riders of the Purple Sage star Russ Gauthier.

The trio lends airtight harmonies to tastefully chosen songs by the likes of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Bob Dylan, Rodney Crowell, Carole King and Lucinda Williams. A highlight is “Jessie’s Not Home,” co-written by Vogensen, J. Thompson and Marin’s own Andre Pessis. Info at store.cdbaby.com/cd/therivertowntrio.

“People tell me what I have done has inspired them to live their lives differently,” Bernard says. “Though, for me, I just felt compelled to do something that has always been in my deepest heart, and there was no stopping it.”

• “Outside of Space and Time,” El Radio Fantastique — Known for its contemporary cabaret concerts, this ultra-creative Point Reyes Station band goes for the steam-punk energy of its live shows on this EP and mostly succeeds, not an easy thing to do. All five songs were written or co-written by band founder and front man Giovanni DiMorente, who grew up in West Marin and has been a Terra Linda gravedigger, Dumpster diver and one-hit wonder pop star.

With “Outside of Space and Time,” DiMorente and band — Colin Schlitt, Robin Livingston, Gene Fisher, Emily Haltom, Jeff Smiler and Oz Beckers — continue to check the same genre-defying boxes that they did on their 2016 EP, “Shine.” This collection is just as crazily cacophonous, scintillating and strange. Info at elradiofantastique.bandcamp.com/album/outside-of-space-and-time.

• “Wishing on the Moon,” Denny Zeitlin — This new album from Kentfield’s psychiatrist-jazz pianist was recorded live at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in New York City. It features the critically acclaimed Zeitlin, a clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF, with bassist Buster Williams and drummer Matt Wilson improvising on an album of mostly original tunes, including the beautifully introspective title track. amazon.com/Wishing-Moon-Denny-Zeitlin/dp/ B07BF5SR2P.

Bay Area Jazz fans will have a chance to experience Zeitlin playing live at his annual solo concert at the Piedmont Piano Co. in Oakland on Dec. 7. Shows will be at 8 and 10 p.m. Info at piedmontpiano.com.

“I’ll again be focusing on the work of a single composer, and this year it will be George Gershwin,” he says. “I’ve loved his music all my life and have recorded some of his tunes over the years. But I have never presented a whole evening of his compositions as a springboard into improvisation.”

• “Even Good Dogs Get the Blues,” John “Greyhound” Maxwell — A retired Golden Gate Transit District bus driver turned full-time bluesman, Maxwell shows his mastery of acoustic guitar blues in all its shades and styles on this album’s 12 tracks, half of them originals. He opens the album, appropriately enough, singing and picking about his former life and his current one on the autobiographical “Bus Drivin’ Man.” store.cdbaby.com/cd/ johngreyhoundmaxwell1.

• “Road Trip,” Dennis Hagerty — Novato’s Hagerty wrote all 11 of the fine country-Americana songs on this album about life on the move across America. The album features Hagerty sharing lead vocals with a brace of female voices — Cathy Slack, Susan McCabe, Lilan Cane, Crystal Brunelle, Kerry Daly, Amy Wigton, Natalie Smith and Sandy Geller. They make for lovely sounding traveling companions, along with the other top Marin musicians who backed him in his Friendly Lane Studio in Novato. store.cdbaby.com/cd/dennishagerty2.

Peter Tork, a blues and folk musician who became a teeny-bopper sensation as a member of the Monkees, the wisecracking, made-for-TV pop group that imitated and briefly outsold the Beatles, died Feb. 21. He was 77.